<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Lourie Nolan is the middle aged woman you see standing on the sidelines scribbling ideas into a cheap spiral notebook, laughing hysterically at the jokes most others don't get, sneaking chocolate to unruly children, mainlining coffee, and drinking too much red wine with little old ladies. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" />
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">She lives with her husband in central Missouri and writes for the love of writing, creating characters and scenarios, and yelling 'yay!' every time she learns someone is enjoying the stories she tells.</span></p>